NRC: Overview of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Interim Storage Partners LLC’s Proposed Consolidated Interim Storage Facility

See the document, posted online here:

https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML20121A016

A copy of the PDF formatted version of the Overview is viewable posted online here as well.

Update on May 6, 2020 by admin

Don Hancock of Southwest Research Information Center (SRIC) in ABQ, NM points out:

"The Overview (like the Holtec one) again repeats the factual error that PFS's [Private Fuel Storage, LLC] license is terminated (page 4)."

Here is the false statement, as printed in NRC's Overview:

"The NRC previously licensed one other away-from-reactor dry cask spent fuel storage facility, called Private Fuel Storage (NUREG-1714); however, that facility was never built and the license was subsequently terminated." (emphasis added)

This is not true. The license was not subsequently terminated.

Thus, NRC's Overview is inaccurate as to NRC's own licensing decisions.

NRC made the same mistake in its Holtec NM CISF DEIS summary/overview, first published on March 10, 2020.

And the DEIS documents themselves do not state that the PFS license is terminated. So in that sense, the summaries/overviews contradict the DEIS documents.

Significantly, if Holtec International/Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance, Interim Storage Partners/Waste Control Specialists, and the nuclear power utilities, were serious about these CISFs being entirely private, then why not use the license rubber-stamped by NRC at PFS more than a decade ago? Because the actual goal is to transfer title/ownership, and liability, onto the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) -- that is, federal taxpayers. Which is illegal, a violation of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as Amended. This illegality is the heart of Beyond Nuclear's lawsuit against both CISFs. Don't Waste MI et al. (a seven-group national grassroots environmental coalition), Sierra Club, and Fasken Oil, have also challenged this violation of the NWPA represented by these CISF schemes.

Not that Beyond Nuclear and our environmental and environmental justice allies think the PFS CISF targeting the Skull Valley Goshutes was or is a good idea. Quite the opposite. It is a dangerously bad idea, and an outrageous violation of environmental justice. Learn more about the environmental movement's successful resistance to the PFS CISF, a victory won in close solidarity and collaboration with Native American partners, including Skull Valley Goshute dump opponents Margene Bullcreek and Sammy Blackbear, Indigenous Environmental Network, Honor the Earth, and others.